Kamran Akmal vs. Matt Prior

Both made decent test starts before coming into strong criticism for their 'sub-standard' glove-work and batting. Both have have responded strongly of late but who between the two is the better wicket-keeper/batsman

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They do keep in tests. So even if you don't think that they are keepers per say, you have to think how they keep in tests. It is like x person may not think that Laxman was a test opener but might have opinions of how Laxman was as a test opener.

Akmal is one of the worst keeper batsmen Ive seen. So many mistakes and simple ones at that.

However, I certainly havent seen anything close to all his games and if I was giving him the benefit of the doubt Id say that maybe Ive just seen him at bad times.

However, as I said, the times Ive seen him there have been few worse.

Originally Posted by Top_Cat

Courtney Browne? How about his drop of Steve Waugh. Talk about a big miss, in his first test no less.

That said, I do have him on tape pulling off an absolutely lightning millimetres-in-it stumping of Stuart Law a few years ago. Still, he was ordinary with the gloves.

Pretty much agree completely with both these posts. Akmal has been awful for a fair while, with bat and gloves. Prior hasn't, yet at least, though that he will be is certainly not beyond question. Having said that, there was certainly a time when Akmal looked seriously good - while comparisons (alongside Dhoni) to Sangakkara were OTT, he was looking good. Then it all went seriously wrong on the tour of England.